Vote for Huggett

Vote for Huggett
British 1-sheet poster
Directed byKen Annakin
Written byMabel Constanduros
Denis Constanduros
Allan MacKinnon
Produced byBetty E. Box
StarringJack Warner
Kathleen Harrison
Susan Shaw
Petula Clark
CinematographyReginald H. Wyer
Edited byGordon Hales
Music byAntony Hopkins
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors (UK)
Release date
  • February 1949 (1949-02)
Running time
84 mins
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office£143,000 (by 1953)[1]

Vote for Huggett is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and starring Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw and Petula Clark.[2] It was written by Mabel Constanduros, Denis Constanduros and Allan MacKinnon. In this, the third in the series of films about the Huggetts after Holiday Camp (1947) and Here Come the Huggetts (1948), Warner reprises his role as Joe Huggett, the head of a London family in the post-war years who decides to run as a candidate in the municipal election. It was followed by The Huggetts Abroad (1949).[3]

  1. ^ Andrew Spicer, Sydney Box Manchester Uni Press 2006 p 211
  2. ^ "Vote for Huggett". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  3. ^ "FAMILY LIFE SERIES by British Producers". The Mercury. Vol. CLXX, no. 24, 665. Tasmania, Australia. 31 December 1949. p. 8. Retrieved 12 July 2020 – via National Library of Australia.